Magazine for moving-picture films.



E. Wl. WODEN.

MAGAZINE FOR MOVING PICTURE'FILMS.

'APPLICATION FILED rmpm 1915.

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Application filed February 15, 1915. Serie No. 35.72.

To all whom may concern! lie it known that L'EARLE M. WOODEN,

a citizen of the' United States, onda. resi-' dentoit the borough of Manhattan of the city f New York, in the State of vNew r'ork, have invented certain new and useful improvements lin Magazines for Movinglicture Films, for which ll om about o maire application, reference beine,r had to the accompanying drawings, which fortuin part hereof.

lin accordance-With present day practice, a housing'for the reels of moving picture films is mounted on the casing of the ma- )tti titt

chine and the iilm is passed from the reel housing doven through a4 slot in the casing ot the mech-.ine and through the feeding mechanism-to the Windingon" spool which may be looated at any convenient point. Aitor' the .filmAl has been run through the mechine, an empty spool is left in the reel housing and this empty-spool must be removed from the housing by the operator and a fresh reel then inserted, whereupon the fresh lilm can be fed through the machine and the exhibition repeated in the usuel' Since the fire underwrlters require manner. the film to be Vinolosed, the removal oi" the empty spool and the suhstitutior'i and setting of a fresh film entails the4 opening and sub sequent closing of a suitable door in the film housingF and other manipulations which require an appreciable period oi time, dependtiti ttt

ing somewhat on the skill of the operator,

and. cause en annoying interval between eX- hihitions.

lt is the object of this invention to reduce the time required for the placing oit Jfresh reels to a minimum and to remove, as for as possible, the personal factor which hitherto has been involved Where the length ot' the interval between exhibitions has depended on the skill of the operator. In aocordonoe with the invention a, magazine, as such, is provided in place' of the usual film housing and this magazine is formed with a plurality of compartments, in each of Which may be mounted, in readiness for use, n fresh film, and that, too, regardless' of whether the other compartments contain lms or not. n the illustratedY embodiinent,'for instance, a magazine is shown in which there are two compartments, one of Epecicaton of Letters Patent.

-such as to permit the magasine rotated shout the vertical mns-oit the cap.

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of the preferred einl'iodiment ot the inten,

tion, in which-e Figure 1. is a view, partly in side. eleva-- tion and partiy. in section, ot' niennnine embodying the inifeinion.x moin. ed on the casino;n or' o movies@l picture r Jeine Q is a View in section, teiten 'ie pl dicated by the line eP-e, ingr in the direetion of' the sirens, a train ment of the ci Le; ot' the moving picture machine helingr` indicated, in plan of the magazine shown in Fig. l,

certain details oit construction 'heing indi-i cated in dotted lines.

In the top wall a oit the appropriateportion of the casing of a moving picture mnchine, lndicated generallyat o, is formed slot a2, throughwhich .may he rim the in d in juxtaposition to this slot is taste-ned a suitable base c formed with o' vertioitiiy die posed bearing stud o over which they be readily placed n hollow supporting; cap for the improved niegsnine df, 'the oon'neoA tion between the cop al' and tliet ud o hein'grih 'he readily The housing d" maybe nny desired form, but in the illostrained.ornhodiinentisy shown as substantially cylindrimolV and ns formed with two non-oonnnunioating compartments d? sind d'3, separated. bye vertically disposed partition plate d4 secured at ohout`- the mid section'of the housing-,15. lin the ptn,l j

tition plate al* may he mounted oppositely entending supportm shafts c, the axes ot whichA lare prefers ly 2o-incident With the axis yof the housing d. chamber al, 038 is formed with e door d on -Which may be fixed o convenient loteh do, the form of Whioh may he such os to facilitate the opening and closing ort the door. From-the description, it will hie-evident that in the use of the improved magazine, the operator will open one of the doors d5 and slip t is o view Each mega-nine lill?.

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ttftt' ttl@ lillt'l formed at the bottom ot' each compartment (l2, el?, and the slot L2 in the housing o.. in accordance with the usual method. l`he `door (Z5 is then latched and the exhibition commenced. During the exhibition a fresh reel maybe placed in the other.compartment d2 in the manner described in connection with the placing ot' the reel in the compertinent la? :is soon as theilm I; has been run ott' the spool in the compartment rl, thev operator quickly rotates the magazine Il about its pivotal support c until the slot (Z7 in the base of the chamber (l2 comes in proper position with respect to the slot a?, whereupon the fresh film is fed down through the two slots in the usual manner. During the exhibition of this ilm the erupt)7 spool in the other chamber may be removed and replaced by a fresh reel, in readiness for immediate exhibition.

it' desired the magazine d may be provided with more than two chambers as the invention is not to be limited to the shape The essence of the invention lies in the facility for bringing reels which are mounted in readinessfor exhibition, successively into position for display of the respective films. It is to be noted also that means may be employed for stopping th'c magazine automatically in the appropriate positions for exhibition of the -films in the respective chambers.

l claim as my invention:

A unitary magazine for lilms otl moving pictures comprising a substantially c f'lindrical integral housing divided interiorly into two compartments, shatts independent-ot the machine to support a reel in each compartment, a slot in the bottoni wall oi each compartment through which the film may be run, a bearing post carried on the casing of the moving picture machine with which coperfites a socket formed in the housing of the magazine,whereby the magazine may be removably mounted on the post and rotated about a vertical axis to bring the slot of either compartment into registry with z:

corresponding slot in the casingf of the mov ing picture machine to permit the lihn to be drawn through said slots and projected.

This specification signed and witnessed this 21st day of December, A. D. 19M.

p EARLE M. WOODEN.

Signed in the presence ofv ELLA J. KRUGER, FRANCIS J. MURPHY. 

